Word: gee
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...paramilitary role, the CIA today has high-tech weapons at its disposal, most notably the Predator. But gee-whiz weaponry is not always as smart as the p.r. flacks would have us believe. Last February, for example, three Afghans, described as dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists, were killed by a missile launched from a CIA Predator drone in the eastern part of the country. They were apparently villagers collecting scrap metal. One was tall and could have been Osama bin Laden. Never mind that the man killed was only 5 ft. 11 and bin Laden is 6 ft. 5; the Predator...
...gee--we would have been happy with just a deduction for French maid's uniforms...
...railway depot in the middle of nowhere. "You'll be all right with Phil," the cheerful driver assured me. "He's a bit of a bushie." It wasn't a reference to his foot-long beard. Wearing a check shirt and a tall, rabbit-felt hat, trek leader Phil Gee looked the part of a man more comfortable in the outback than indoors...
...when "adventure" and "exploration" make for common tourist-brochure copy, he offers the real thing. Carrying a mental list of abandoned miners' huts and trails waiting to be discovered, Gee takes a Sherlock Holmes approach to exploring this remote corner of the outback, hunting for traces of human passage. Each group of about 12 tourists accompanies him on a slightly different trek?ensuring that his clients get a unique trip, and he a chance to fill in the blank spaces on the map. Gee's guests ride through some of Australia's most austere terrain, participating in the full desert...
...says Charles Whitebread, a law professor at the University of Southern California who has written extensively on marijuana law. "Even though it did nothing to them, the fear that it will somehow pollute their children has made some of the people who used marijuana extremely freely now say, 'Oh, gee, I wouldn't be in favor of the change in the legal status of marijuana.'" It may be that the major dividing line between the pro-and anti-legalizers is not party affiliation but parental status. And even among parents, moms see more against pot than dads...